Without seeing your ControlTemplate it's difficult to give the best way to change it.
One slightly hackish way to do it is set Focusable on the ComboBox to False and then set Focusable on the TextBlock (or Label) to True. This should make it so the TextBlock gets focus whenever the ComboBox should.
My best guess though is that you have some weird margins going on, the real way to fix it would be to straighten those out.
Bryan Anderson
2009-05-20 14:37:18